Allen's Art and Angst
Long-form, thought-provoking blogging is so 2006. Much easier to let other people do the heavy lifting.
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Photo reblogged from The Mary Sue
The last panel of this strip cracked me right the fuck up.
Little League #40 by Yale Stewart
Characters © DC Comics. Creative content © Yale Stewart.
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Thank you to my girlfriend, who suggested they play with ponies, and to Ashley Guillory, who helped me out with the MLP references!
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Photoset reblogged from I Fail At Life, That's Why I Became An Artist.
Man, I love process posts. If I felt better about my own stuff - and thought about it more in advance - I’d do one of my own someday.
Anyways - thanks, Erica! This is nifty!
This is another image I did for Indiana Jones: Adventure World. I often wind up coloring things a lot differently at work than I do at home and my coloring style changed again on this one so I thought I would post a gif of my process. Each frame is a different layer in photoshop and it went like this:
1. I wanted to get down a dramatic pose and put the figure at an angle to work better in the rectangular frame.
2. Added lines that emphasize the direction and to make into a spotlight because there’s no room for subtlety here.
3. Added the dinosaur. Put it going in the opposite direction so that the whole composition isn’t doing the same thing.
4. Blocked out the values.
5. Pulled out the dinosaur a bit more with another value layer.
6. Put down overlay blend layer in pure red at 100% opacity.
7. Put down a multiply blend layer at 100% opacity to put in the blue spot, and the reddish brown background with highlights on the figure.
8. Regular layer, put down some semi-transparent colors so that the red and the blue would shine through.
9. Polish! Most of the drawing and color blending happened here. I just worked with the colors that were already created underneath and cleaned it all up.
10-12. God Rays. Makes the blue portion of the page even lighter.
13. Static overlay!
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Quote reblogged from Chris Haley is... THE ENTHUSIAST!When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot… And so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors,’ then you’re missing what this job is about.
President Obama on why Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector matters (via barackobama)
I love how our president can rationally articulate a thought.
(via aaronmeier)
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I did this thing, based on a photo of Liv Tyler, last weekend. I feel like I’m really starting to find my “voice” with my drawings, though I suspect that voice/style will continue to change over time.
(Done 100% in Manga Studio.)
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Link reblogged from Puppystuff
It’s an interesting point about the slut-shaming. I don’t think that’s the entirety of the issue, but it’s certainly got to be an aspect of it. Would she be either as “popular” (where that might actually mean “culturally relevant,” as I’m not sure how many people actually like her) or as reviled if the leaked sex tape weren’t part of her story? If everything else were the same, except that there were no sex tape to launch her fame — let’s say her reality show was started for some other reason, and she became famous solely as a result of the show — would the press/public even care as much? Or would she be as famous as, say, any other random star of any random TLC reality show?
She’s been denigrated as an air-headed slut from the time she first appeared in the public consciousness. Obviously, I have no idea how valid that assessment is. If she were only “air-headed” without the “slut” attached, how relevant would she be?
Oh my god, that is amazing.
So… do people actually hate Kim Kardashian for a reason, or is she just loathed because she doesn’t ‘deserve’ to be a celebrity and made it big because of a sex tape? Like, has she done anything loathsome, and is she actually a measurably worse actor than, say, Nic Cage? I am asking this honestly.
I sorta wondered the same thing about Paris Hilton, who was actually pretty good in Repo: the Genetic Opera.
As fun as I think it is to denigrate shitty people, I haven’t actually seen any evidence that Kim K is shitty people. From what I’ve read, she mostly tries to do positive, charity-related stuff outside of her self-promotion. Maybe this is because I live under a rock and don’t watch television. Maybe it’s because she actually has done crappy stuff that I haven’t heard about.
But maybe it’s because the cult of hate surrounding her, especially this high-handed and bizarrely moralistic satire piece, reeks of slut-shaming.
(Source: wilwheaton)
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Link reblogged from Chris Haley is... THE ENTHUSIAST!
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Quote reblogged from Love Is The Burning BoyMy point is this—if you want to be happy in showbiz (or any creative field), listen to that voice inside you. Even if it says ‘Fuck it’ sometimes. Work with your friends. Avoid chasing fame or money. Just do what you want to do, when and how you want to do it. And if it’s not making you happy, quit. Quit hard, and quit often. Eventually you’ll end up somewhere that you never want to leave.
